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Summary

This is a largely unmaintained list of hardware configurations reported as "known working" at some time in the past. If you would like to have something added here, email wikiadmin at pfsense dot org with details.

Details

Soekris

  • Soekris Net4801. 266Mhz AMD Geode CPU, 128MB RAM, 2 NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX NICs, Wireless 400mW 802.11a/b/g Atheros 5212 MiniPCI. SanDisk SDCFB-512 HDX 3.15. Embedded pfSense 1.0.1.

AMD

  • 200 MHz AMD K6, 256 MB RAM, 2 generic Realtek chipset NICs, 20 GB generic harddisk. Serves well as a router/firewall. Can also handle at least one VPN connection.
  • K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM, 3.2GB HDD. Working great so far, despite the warning that "127MB" (sic) is not the optimum amount of memory. Memory usage staying at 46% when configured as a standard firewall.

Intel

Pentium 2 and earlier

  • PR440FX - Dual Proc 200 mhz pentium pro, 256 MB ram, Intel nics

Pentium 3

  • SE440BX Pentium 3 - 550. 384 MB RAM. 2 Intel pci nics. 8 gb hd. Pushes over 45 megabit a sec.

Pentium 4

  • Intel Pentium 4 EMT64 3 GHz, Supermicro P8SCi board, 2GB DDR2 533, Intel Pro/1000 MT Quad Gigabit, 80GB SATA; All 6 gigabit interfaces active. Will have performance numbers once it becomes the default route.
  • Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz, 512MB DDR2 667, MSI 945GM3-F MB, Intel 10/100/1000Mbps PCI-X MT Dual Port Server Adapter
  • Tyan S5112G2NR motherboard with 3.0 ghz pentium IV processor and 2 on-board Intel Gigabit NIC's, 1 Gigabyte of unregistered unbuffered ECC RAM, 1 40 Gigabyte PATA Western Digital Hard Drive, 1 Intel 32 Bit Workstation Gigabit NIC, 2 Intel 64 Bit PCI-X 2 Port Server Gigabit NIC's, 1 Soekris VPN1401 Crypto Accelerator Card
  • Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz, 2GB Memory, 10 x Intel Pro/1000 MT Gigabit adapters (2 x 4-port Gigabit, 1 x 2-port Gigabit).

Third Party Vendors

Nexcom

  • Nexcom 1030 - Intel nics - Saturates 100 megabit link
  • Nexcom 1041c - Intel nics - works with embedded versiona nd full install

PC-Engines

  • PC-Engines wrap, 128 meg version

LinITX

  • linITX FX5620 - 6 port platfrom (1 of them GBit/s), C3 1GHz

Intrusion

  • Intrusion PDS-5115 : CeleronII 600, 128Mb ram, Sparrow mainboard - both hd and cf setups working - only issue : inverted nic's order ( remember to set "-h" @boottime).

HP/Compaq

Many, but not all Compaq and HP servers are supported. All the ones we know of made since about 2002 are fully compatible. Some of the Pentium III and older models have difficulties with Linux and FreeBSD and are known to not work.

Compaq DL360 G2 is known to work, and anything newer should also.

IBM

  • IBM Netvista 8364 S20: Pentium1 233Mhz, 192 MB Ram, 2 x Intel Pro 100, 128 MB CF Card, pfsense embedded install: works perfect on a 6 MBit/s DSL Line
  • IBM T60 with 80GB SATA, 1GB RAM, Intel Pro/1000 running Windows XP - pfSense on VMware server virtual machine 2GB VirtualHDD/256MB 2 NIC one linked to Intel one Virtual.

Dell

  • Optiplex GX1p: 1 x Intel Pentium 3 866, 6.5GB Hard Drive, 6 NIC's (2 x 3Com xl, 2 x Intel fxp, 2 x ADMtek (AN985) dc), test system for development of pfSense.

VMware

  • The entire VMware product line is well supported.

VIA Mini/MicroITX

  • VIA EPIA-5000 miniITX Platform - CPU: VIA C3/Eden 533 MHz (passive cooled); Chipset: VIA PLE133; RAM: 256MB; Onboard NIC: VIA Rhine 10/100; Additional NIC: D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port 10/100); Installed on HDD; 1U 19" router/firewall
  • miniITX VIA C3 Nehemia 1 GHz
  • VIA C3M266 microATX Platform - CPU: VIA 1 GHz (active cooled); Chipset: VIA Apollo CLE266; RAM: 768MB; Onboard NIC: VIA Rhine 10/100; Additional NIC: D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port 10/100); Installed on HDD; 1U 19" router/firewall
  • VIA PC-2500 microATX Platform- CPU: VIA C7 1,6 GHz (active cooled); Chipset: VIA CN700 Digital Media IGP Chipset/VIA VT8237R Plus; RAM: 1024MB; Onboard NIC: VIA Rhine 10/100; Additional NIC: D-Link DFE-570TX (21143, MII, quad port 10/100); Installed on HDD; 1U 19" router/firewall

F5

  • Big-IP with P3 550 Xeon, 30GB Drive, 6 x NIC's (2 x 3Com xl, 2 x Intel fxp, 1 x ADMtek (AN985) dc, 1 x VIA VT3043 Rhine I vr), 512MB RAM, 8mb Comcast Cable, 1 x HP 2524 Switch, 1 x Cisco Catalyst 2900XL, EtherChannel and LACP for link aggregation and failover and VLAN trunking.

Additional Information

Check out the FreeBSD hardware guide, if it's listed there, it's probably supported.

References

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